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TBeholder
Great Reader
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 Posted - 27 Jun 2018 : 09:55:01
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The story of Aileen, a large tarantula who discovered harps. 
In retrospect, given their sense of vibration, it makes perfect sense that a big strong spider who found strings tied to a good resonator would try to play Dance Dance Evolution.
Oh, and one of the Australian tarantulas is called Whistling Spider. I guess the locals could assemble a whole orchestra from the large spiders. 
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 27 Jun 2018 : 13:34:26
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If we're talking about Australia, can we somehow work dropbears into the conversation? I like dropbears. 
I was expecting this topic to either be about some Harper with a very wide network of agents and informants, or something like an awakened watchspider.  |
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TBeholder
Great Reader
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Posted - 27 Jun 2018 : 18:55:31
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
If we're talking about Australia, can we somehow work dropbears into the conversation?
Bears (search shows species from grizzly to koala) can dance, it's an old tradition to bring one along.
Nobody knows yet whether they like spider music, but {handful of species}X{dozens of species} gives many combinations, some probably work well.
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or something like an awakened watchspider.
Well... we can extrapolate.
Since most spiders use at least detection webs and most of the rest are likely to retain vibration sense of their ancestors anyway (it obviously gives advantages even without the net), this may work with any species strong enough to pluck strings, they'll just have different preferences.
So why not.
King Baboon Spider's hiss approaches (on the higher end of its spectrum) 175 kHz. If that's near the highest end of their whole hearing band, it would take scaling >5x to have its hearing band brought close to human. And they already got leg span to cover a smaller dinner plate.
Dog-sized would be about right. Also, if it has leg span comparable to human arm length, it's big and strong enough to reach any combination of strings on a full-sized harp and play it at good volume. |
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Bladewind
Master of Realmslore
Netherlands
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Posted - 28 Jun 2018 : 08:25:22
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Aye, give that spider some years practice (and make the Tarantula Spider into a waterdhavian watchspider) and it might be able to make arcane effects manifest as it taps into bardic musical techniques with its new harpist skills.
Given that verbal components could be hissed just as a King Baboon spider, somatic components can arguably be done by a spider with dance moves (hopping its thorax, flexing its legs, mashing its mandibles) and material components can be ignored with proper training, bardic spider spellcasters could be a real thing in the Realms. |
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